Across
- 1. Interconnects computers in a limited area such as a home, school, computer laboratory, or office building using network media
- 4. An electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow
- 6. A chip located on all motherboards that contain instructions and setup for how your system should boot and how it operates
- 8. A panel of keys that operate a computer or typewriter
- 9. Is an external bus standard that supports data transfer rates of 12 Mbps and is capable of supporting up to 127 peripheral devices
- 11. A Connector for a device that sends or receives several bits of data simultaneously by using more than one wire
- 14. Is the main circuit board of your computer and is also known as the mainboard or logic board
- 15. USB can relate FireWire to USB as it has a lot of the same similarities
Down
- 2. A BIOS capable of supporting calls in Protected Mode
- 3. Microchips that are designed to work with one or more related functions
- 5. A Connector by which a device that sends data one bit at a time may be connected to a computer
- 6. Enables a computer processor to communicate with the memory or a video card to communicate with the memory
- 7. Enables communication between the computer and another hardware device
- 10. Is the brains of the computer where most calculations take place
- 12. Dissipates the heat from the processor, preventing it from overheating
- 13. Is a connection that allows a computer processors to be connected to a motherboard